Is she just trying too hard? Just when things threaten to go stale for Haifa's co-national and rival, Lebanese singer Roula Saad, the pop-star pulls out all the stops as she prepares to throw an Iraqi number into the mix. Determined to make her mark on the Arab-scape, the diva is recording a new song in the Iraqi dialect, marking her first foray into the Babylonian tongue since enetering the world of pan-Arab music.

The song is aptly titled "Majnoonah" (Crazy), since the singer has to be quite bold to try to master a fine music tradition.